Make your heart merry by following these health tips

Drugs can treat or manage diseases of the heart but they can’t nourish or revitalize it; only foods can play that role. The attainment of good health through preventive medicine is the ultimate goal of health care providers; it is the practice of medicine at its best.
Nutritional medicine utilizes foods and food supplements to maintain health and to prevent, manage and treat disease conditions. The healing actions of foods are traceable to the food nutrients or non nutrient plant chemicals (phytochemicals) present in foods as well as the effects of colour energy of various foods.
In our fast pace world, patients with various heart conditions are on the increase which calls for a deliberate action plan to feed the whole body, most especially the heart with what can nourish it and keep it working smoothly. If we take just two disease conditions of the heart such as hypertension and stroke (the resultant effect of uncontrolled hypertension), we will be confronted with frightening statistics. For example medical statistics shows that over 50 million Nigerians are hypertensive and about 160,000 Nigerians suffer stroke yearly.
What do we do to stem the tide of heart diseases? We can employ the following foods and food supplements to maintain our heart thereby avoiding serious heart challenges.